toothbrush wrote:Yeah that's Uris. More specifically it's the A.D. White Library within Uris. The useful thing about Uris proper is that it's open 24 hours a day during the week in case you feel the need to pull an all-nighter and/or are nocturnal.

toothbrush wrote:Yeah that's Uris. More specifically it's the A.D. White Library within Uris. The useful thing about Uris proper is that it's open 24 hours a day during the week in case you feel the need to pull an all-nighter and/or are nocturnal.

the law library is also 24/7 for law students.

Good to know. I avoided the law libe as an undertot because I know where I'm not wanted haha

linkx13 wrote:This doesn't make sense to me. I thought Cornell gave out merit and need as one award? So, if you applied for need, wouldn't you not have received the award yet?

I applied for both but only was offered merit. The letter I received outlined a significant merit based scholarship and a loan package for any additional expenses (i.e. the scholarship covered most of my tuition but they expect I might need loans to pay for living expenses). It is a fairly common practice among law schools not to offer need-based aid if the merit-based is high enough. Go check out the Michigan accepted thread to see that discussion in more detail as U of M is very upfront about that practice and actually included a line in the scholarship letter about merit aid recipients (over a certain amount) not qualifying for any additional need-based aid. I presume that Cornell uses a similar metric though their letter was less detailed.

tl;dr Essentially, because the merit aid package was large enough, they didn't see the need for any additional "need-based" aid. I received my entire aid package, and that package was entirely merit-based + loans. Feel free to PM if you're still confused and want more details.

vicpin5190 wrote:Is all scholarship/financial aid communicated via snail mail or is it just for the Dean's Scholi? I had read somewhere previously that all communication was email, so i guess I'd like some more clarification.

Have no idea since it used to be all e-mail, even for the dean's scholarships. Could be that they just did snail mail for the dean's, or it could be that they're sending everything snail mail this year.

I also received a Dean's Scholarship offer via snail mail yesterday. I was accepted about 5 weeks ago, and I live in the Midwest. I am very surprised at how high the offer is. I mean, my numbers are good, but holy hell. It's higher than any other scholarship reported on LSN...

Leo wrote:I also received a Dean's Scholarship offer via snail mail yesterday. I was accepted about 5 weeks ago, and I live in the Midwest. I am very surprised at how high the offer is. I mean, my numbers are good, but holy hell. It's higher than any other scholarship reported on LSN...

Leo wrote:I also received a Dean's Scholarship offer via snail mail yesterday. I was accepted about 5 weeks ago, and I live in the Midwest. I am very surprised at how high the offer is. I mean, my numbers are good, but holy hell. It's higher than any other scholarship reported on LSN...

Leo wrote:I also received a Dean's Scholarship offer via snail mail yesterday. I was accepted about 5 weeks ago, and I live in the Midwest. I am very surprised at how high the offer is. I mean, my numbers are good, but holy hell. It's higher than any other scholarship reported on LSN...

Leo wrote:I also received a Dean's Scholarship offer via snail mail yesterday. I was accepted about 5 weeks ago, and I live in the Midwest. I am very surprised at how high the offer is. I mean, my numbers are good, but holy hell. It's higher than any other scholarship reported on LSN...

Leo wrote:I also received a Dean's Scholarship offer via snail mail yesterday. I was accepted about 5 weeks ago, and I live in the Midwest. I am very surprised at how high the offer is. I mean, my numbers are good, but holy hell. It's higher than any other scholarship reported on LSN...

Leo when did you turn in your financial aid form?

Feb. 12, I think. Or somewhere around there.

My understanding is that Cornell plans to tell everyone by the end of the month assuming they made the deadline for submitting financial documents. Does that sound right?

toothbrush wrote:Someone deleted a post that would have brought some good discussion, perhaps I wanted to answer it with an anecdote. Feel free to pm.

"If you strike out at biglaw at Cornell, and you don't pursue PI and make yourself PI-competitive during 2L and 3L, are you stuck with shitlaw? I mean, Cornell's class last year had a good LST score of 85%, but do students on here have anecdotes relating to striking out at biglaw? Looking at the stats, 12 people have what TLS would say is an undesirable outcome (outside of straight jobless), whether in business/industry, state/local clerkships or firms with 25 lawyers or less."

Interested in hearing what you have to say!

ETA: This was supposed to be a PM LOL. Otunga if you think I should just delete it from here, please say so.

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